Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-04-27

a Former Inmate Tells some
t:,inE OF the SIC Regime.

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and asked to make some statement
regarding Bell. He said:
The prisoners have read thu
statements made IN The
APPEAL regarding Mr.. Bell.
administration and are all very
much interested. No other paper
has given the facts but yours. a
good many things happened there
which were not reported
Bell was queer man. He hated
some of the prisoners and others he
feared. He was always trying to
keep on the good side of the men
he feared and was always making it
warm for those he hated. He
crinsed to one set, tryanized an
other and petted others. He was a
man who seldom made an investiga-
ton of anything going on. He
simply took the versions of several
men who we're his pets, and what
ever they said was enough for him.
These men imposed on him and
as he judged everything according
to what they said. they were practi-
cally the bosses of the place. This
caused great injustice and hard
ships to be worked. 1t was more
the fault of his pets than him, yet l
think he was to blame for not Civ
ing all the eases his personal at
tention. All this made a bitter,
sulkey, feeling and he was hated.
Some of the prisoners he allowed
to carry knives. Jack McTage
rushed up to Charley Angel in So
and stabbed him in the head. 1t
was deliberate attempt to kill, but
a few days after that he was taken
into the Office as clerk. This made
bad feeling; McTage had been in
prison before for assault with in
tent to kill. and this was his second
term. He was made a bookeeper
of, and allowed to eat with the
guards. We all thought that max
ing an officer of such man was
premium en- bad behavior.
One morning Dobe Willoughby,
IN for murder for life, picked row
with William Kelso in the dining
room. Kelso avoided the trouble
aud tried to pacify the other, when
he was stabbed three times with
knife The cut on his arm re-
CURED SURGEON and he was laid
up several weeks. Bell fined Kelso
ten days for being cut, aud only
put the aSsailant in a dark cell on
the best of grub. Kelso asked Bell
if be might be permitted to produce
evidence to show the facts In the
case, aud Bell said:
No; not unless you want your
fine increased to fifty DAYS"
az SubuCIS CHdStQ d tudu IdIU6u
Leanurd around the yard with an
AK to kill him. He was put in
cell one day and let out the next.
Tom Duncan, stage rouber. de-
liberately stabbed a boy named
Smith with knife. Soon after
wards Duncan was pardoned out.
and Bell aid not lay the stabbing
before the Board.
Bell hated to see prisoner have
any money on his discharge The
law provides that prisoner on be-
ing discharged will have $25 In
money and a $l0 clothing order
Bell allowed the prisoners to,
gamble on the money coming To
them. Two men who were about
to be DISCHARGED would each write
out an order on Bell for the $25
and then gamble for the orders. Bell
would cash these orders, and many
a man has left the place without
cent Bell always said that So was
enough for man to start out with.
Since MCCULLOUGH has come in
charge he has posted up a notice
that no order cards would be cashed,
and this has stopped the gambling.
Mccullough is very strict disci-
pliBarian, but the quality of food is
much improved and the men get no
more rotten potatoes. Wherever
anything comes up McCullough |
hears both sides of the case and
does equal justice. Mccullough |
has no pets and treats all alike.